[Foundation-l] Thank you for discussing my Top 25 Nonprofit LIst

[Allan Benamer]

Ahhh -- understood. I guess we'll just have to live with the estimates from
Quantcast and Compete in the meantime. I have a question though -- if a
service was willing to handle Wikipedia's load, would you use it? That is,
if Quantcast offered to do statistics gathering for Wikimedia, would
Wikimedia consent to it?

On 10/3/07, Matthew Britton <matthew.britton at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> geni wrote:
> > On 03/10/2007, Allan Benamer <abenamer at nonprofittechblog.org> wrote:
> >> Hehe.. well, I just want monthly unique visitors.
> >
> > When it was said almost nothing was collected that wasn't a joke.
> >
>
> I'll try to clarify what geni is saying. The Wikimedia Foundation relies
> exclusively on donations and has a very tight budget. It can only buy as
> much hardware as it can afford, and can only just afford enough to keep
> the sites running. (The toolserver had to be donated separately).
>
> The resources just aren't available to completely log all site traffic -
> it would require scripts to process the mess of data generated at a fast
> enough pace to keep up without using up precious CPU time, and a whole
> load of extra disk space to store this data.
>
> It's not possible to just "release all log data", because it doesn't
> exist.
>
> -Gurch
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>